Its pure and simple no race hate, Nasser was Mr Olympia or there abouts until he turned around, your back covers half your body from the rear, you cant hide it like a torn tricep or bicep, it is the focal point of two whole poses not just part of, Sherief comes across as an educated poster at times but seems to lose his way when assessing Nasser, maybe because he is a fellow Muslim, who knows, but saying Nasser didn't win shows based on his religion is false, I'm a fan of his physique and feel that he was placed fairly in competition taking into account all strengths and weaknesses of his physique.
Believe me in the 90s I didn’t know that nasser was muslim and he was still my favorite.. his arab name should make me guess so but I didn’t even care to know.. I said this before many times but here I am saying it to you again,.. Mustafa mahmoud and ahmed haidar are both muslims and pure arabs (not half arabs like nasser) and both were good bbs and both faced some injustice during their careers but i don’t support them.. for me they were just good bbs like a lot others.. the only arab bb I always support (beside nasser of course) is samir bannout because he is one of my favorites.. and as we all know samir is Christian!!.. I don’t post here to support my religion, it’s a bb board and I come here to talk about bb!!.. I never say one single bad word about anyone’s religion here although I receive religious insults daily!!.. I am sure I respect Christianity for example more than a lot of Christian ppl do respect their own religion!!..
I never said that nasser didn’t win the Olympia because of his religion!!.. I said it is the policy of the ifbb to keep giving the olympia title to one super champion as many times as possible even when he doesnt deserve just to keep him as a legend for the longest possible time which is something good for the popularity of the sport, no one can argue with that.. if the Olympia is won every year or every couple of years by a different champ it would have been just another Arnold classic or NOC!!.. the ifbb did the same with Ronnie who didn’t deserve all his Olympia victories and was going to do the same with jay cutler when they gave him a very big gift in 2007 but cutler refused to take more gifts when he came again in a bad shape in 2008.. he was bad to the extent the ifbb couldn’t help him.. can you tell me how a very bad jay beat victor and dex. in 2007 then in 2008 an improved jay (but still looked bad) couldn’t beat dex. who in 2008 was nearly the same as in 2007!!..
As for nasser I totally agree that his back although wide and thick needed much more details to look good besides dorian or shawn ray.. but all his other body parts in the 2 rear poses looked great, his hams, calves, shoulders, arms.. etc.. yes for sure back is a very important part but it’s still one part and it was nasser’s only weak part!!.. from the front and especially in 1997 nasser was better than dorian more than dorian was better than him from the back!!.. from the front nasser was better in all parts without any exception but from the back dorian was better in the back muscle only!!.. as for the side it’s a very silly joke to keep saying the same old shit that nasser was flat from the side and blab la bla!!.. sure nasser was better than the others from the side (specially than dorian in 1997)..
One more very funny point I want to add to show you how blind the judges of mr. Olympia 97 were or let me say how blind they wanted to be is that no one noticed dorian’s freshly torn triceps!!.. no one knew about it except after the show when dorian himself narrated the details!!..
Sorry for the long comment!..
